THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ)\u00a0– The Coachella Valley Firebirds fell to the Bakersfield Condors 7-3 on New Year’s Eve at Acrisure Arena.<\/p>\n
The Condors scored three unanswered goals before the Firebirds got on the board. Andrei Loshko netted his second goal of the year to trail 3-1 in the middle frame.<\/p>\n
Bakersfield got its three-goal lead right back to close out the second.<\/p>\n
To open the third period, Jani Nyman, in his first game back with the Firebirds, sniped in his first goal of the season to cut the deficit to two.<\/p>\n
The Condors answered right back, but Coachella Valley had a response.<\/p>\n
Lleyton Roed ripped one into the back of the net and placed the birds within two.<\/p>\n
Bakersfield added another pair of goals after Roed’s goal to seal a 7-3 final.<\/p>\n
Nikke Kokko started in net for CV and saved 28 shots on goal.<\/p>\n
The Firebirds fall to a 15-10-4 record on the season. Coachella Valley will head on the road and play the San Diego Gulls on Friday, January 2nd. Puck drop is at 7 PM.<\/p>\n
Stay with News Channel 3 for continuing coverage of the Coachella Valley Firebirds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ)\u00a0– The Coachella Valley Firebirds fell to the Bakersfield Condors 7-3 on New Year’s Eve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-116059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}